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The entrance system laboratory prototype for an advanced mass and ionic charge composition experiment

Rev. Sci. Instrum. 80, 104502 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3247906

Published 26 October 2009

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F. Allegrini, M. I. Desai, R. Livi, S. Livi, D. J. McComas, and B. Randol
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas 78238, USA
Electrostatic analyzers (ESA) have been used extensively for the characterization of plasmas in a variety of space environments. They vary in shape, geometry, and size and are adapted to the specific particle population to be measured and the configuration of the spacecraft. Their main function is to select the energy per charge of the particles within a passband. An energy-per-charge range larger than that of the passband can be sampled by varying the voltage difference between the ESA electrodes. The voltage sweep takes time and reduces the duty cycle for a particular energy-per-charge passband. Our design approach for an advanced mass and ionic charge composition experiment (AMICCE) has a novel electrostatic analyzer that essentially serves as a spectrograph and selects ions simultaneously over a broad range of energy-per-charge (E/q). Only three voltage settings are required to cover the entire range from ~10 to 270 keV/q, thus dramatically increasing the product of the geometric factor times the duty cycle when compared with other instruments. In this paper, we describe the AMICCE concept with particular emphasis on the prototype of the entrance system (ESA and collimator), which we designed, developed, and tested. We also present comparisons of the laboratory results with electrostatic simulations. ©2009 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 5 May 2009; accepted 23 September 2009; published 26 October 2009
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 94.80.+g
    Instrumentation for space plasma physics, ionosphere, and magnetosphere
  • 07.75.+h
    Mass spectrometers
  • 52.72.+v
    Laboratory studies of space- and astrophysical-plasma processes
  • 95.30.Qd
    Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics and plasmas
  • 95.55.-n
    Astronomical and space-research instrumentation
  • YEAR: 2009

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